One of the often repeated objections to the validity of wine criticism is that the influence of alcohol destroys the capacity for good judgment. Unlike
Category: Philosophy of Food and Wine
Wine, Desire, Madness
In my Three Quarks column this month I explain why the beauty of wine inspires love and madness.
It’s Time to Let Go of the Idea that Wine Makes Itself
This recent article by Zachary Sussman in Punch provides a much needed corrective to what has become a cliché that winemakers do nothing except let
Tasteless Philosophy
Despite their preoccupation with the analysis of sensory experience, philosophers have ignored taste, smell, and touch, focusing instead on vision as the most important sense.
The Problems With Wine Scores Episode 489
Stats wizard David Morrison has a compelling argument that scores between wine critics cannot be compared except in the rare case in which two critics
Can Wine Express Melancholy?
In my conversation with Tyler Thomas, winemaker for Dierberg and Star Lane Vineyards, part of which I posted last week, he said that he didn’t
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